New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.4)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1532

About

Born in England

16 February 1875

Residence

Hometown

Christchurch

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Westport Coal Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

Citizens Defence

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Meritorious Service Medal

In recognition of valuable services rendered with the Army in the field.

Death

Died at the age of 84

1 August 1959

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5549 75/0085974, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 5.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Alfred Howard Newman (1875-1959)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/626